{"id":16176,"date":"2010-01-07T20:06:14","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T20:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2010\/01\/the-price-of-memory-vs-the-price-of-gold.html"},"modified":"2010-01-07T20:06:14","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T20:06:14","slug":"the_price_of_memory_vs_the_price_of_gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/07\/the_price_of_memory_vs_the_price_of_gold\/","title":{"rendered":"The price of memory vs. the price of gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Photoshop engineer John Peterson (creator of Photomerge, among other things) made an interesting observation today:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the CES hype, I noticed that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/01\/06\/panasonic-shipping-first-sdxc-cards-next-month-for-ungodly-amoun\/\">64GB SD Cards are now available<\/a>, for $600 a pop.<\/p>\n<p>For comparison:<\/p>\n<p>A SD Card weighs about 2 grams.  Gold is currently about $36\/gram, so the 64GB cards cost eight times their weight in gold.<\/p>\n<p>The card has a volume of about 1.5 cc.  Gold has a density of 19.32 g\/cc, so a solid gold SD card would take almost 29g of gold, or about $1,000 worth.  Of course, the gold card would probably hold its value better over time.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photoshop engineer John Peterson (creator of Photomerge, among other things) made an interesting observation today: In the CES hype, I noticed that 64GB SD Cards are now available, for $600 a pop. For comparison: A SD Card weighs about 2 grams. Gold is currently about $36\/gram, so the 64GB cards cost eight times their weight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16176"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}